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Measurement Tools and Types

Choose suitable tools and metric units, then solve the team’s measurement challenges. Show working where useful. Use New Zealand metric units.

Choose a tool and a unit

The team is preparing for a beach clean-up. For each job, name a suitable measuring tool and a sensible metric unit. More than one tool may work if it is used appropriately.

1.Measure the length of a long rubbish grabber that is about 1.2 metres long.

2.Find the mass of a full rubbish sack, approximately 6 kg.

3.Check how much water is in a 750 mL bottle.

4.Check whether the water in a rock pool is warmer than 15°C.

Read the field notes

A team recorded these measurements during the clean-up.

Grabber length: 1.35 m

Rubbish sack mass: 4.6 kg

Water collected: 2.4 L

Walk to the sorting station: 850 m

5.How many centimetres long is the grabber? Show or explain your conversion.

6.How many millilitres of water were collected?

7.Write the walk to the sorting station in kilometres.

8.A volunteer says, “The rubbish sack has a volume of 4.6 kg.” Explain the mistake and correct the statement.

Plan the next check

The team wants reliable results. Think about what each instrument actually measures and how to use its scale.

9.Choose the best instrument to measure the temperature of a bucket of seawater: measuring jug, thermometer or stopwatch. Give one reason for your choice.

Measuring jug, because it measures how hot the water is
Thermometer, because it measures temperature
Stopwatch, because it measures the amount of water

10.True or false? A ruler marked in millimetres can measure the width of a shell, and a measuring jug is a suitable tool for finding its mass.

TrueFalse

11.One team member measures a plank as 98 cm. Another records 1.02 m. Are these measurements exactly the same? Convert both to centimetres and state which plank measurement is longer.

12.The team must time a two-minute sorting challenge. Name the best tool and write two minutes in seconds.

13.Create one extra measurement check for the clean-up team. State what they need to find, which tool they should use, and a suitable unit. Make sure the tool matches the measurement.